Seven Seminal Images By Ernst Haas

Published on 23 June 2016

Prolific in photojournalism, commercial photography and celebrity portraiture, Haas is rightly considered one of the giants of 20th-century photography as a pioneer of colour work and true chronicler of American life.

Cars, horses, Indian reserves, ranchers, neon Vegas, the poor of the rural South and the increasing surrealism of rapidly growing cities all fell under his gaze to offer a glimpse of a nation in love with its founding myth, confident of its present, yet headed toward an uncertain future that seems, with the benefit of hindsight, certain to unravel.